Internal Doors and Skirting Boards

Last week was a busy week internally (running a little behind with the blog!). We were more than ready to see the brickwork start but no action. Instead Winter showed it's full force as the inside of our house steamed on. Happy to report one small spot of water getting in and the rest dry. Still not overly confident with this 'backwards/reverse' building technique but as long as things stay dry and the bricks go up, we will be happy. 

Most of the internal doors were fitted out. The front doors are yet to go on (quietly relieved about this!). They require an extra piece of timber to keep them together that was a few mm off. 

Master Bedroom Doors (upgrade)

Still to be painted in Lexicon Quarter

Open!

Upstairs Bedroom (standard)

Door and WIR Door

Bedroom 2 - Duel Door

This is our 5yr old daughters room - it's going to make it difficult (if not a little amusing) for her to ever slam her door!! Those of you with children will understand!

Upstairs Bathroom (left door)

The extra storage cupboards we added (deleted the extra upstairs toilet)

Closer Look at Upstairs Bathroom

(We also have these doors for both the ground powder room and first floor powder room)

You can see why I am glad the from doors are not on yet!

Our skirting boards were also put on. Due to our higher ceilings, our skirting boards were automatically increased. We thought this was just to the ground floor but the first floor appears to have the same (still need to measure and check). I popped around while the carpenter was there on Sunday working on this. When I arrived I was surprised to see someone I used to work with years ago in a part-time job. I took him away from his work for about an hour but it was great to know he was doing the work and he explained a lot of things to me. The skirting boards looked great and really cleaned up and finished off the rooms. After about half an hour of chatting, I was almost struck with a lightening bolt when I realised that there shouldn't have been any skirting boards on the ground floor.......... I was too busy taking in all the work he had done! We are having hardwood spotted gum flooring put in after hand over (not through Carlisle Homes). Our flooring company (ideally) would have liked to install the flooring during the build and we asked Carlisle if they would be willing to sign a waiver for this but it was knocked back. Not a huge big deal. The main things for us/them is that the timber will need to but cut around the kitchen, rather than placed on the timber. If the flooring is done after the kitchen one method they use is placing quad around the edges. We don't like the look of quad and therefore don't want it. So instead our floorer will place the boards as close as they can to the edges and use corking - a gap filler - which requires no quad. The skirting boards will also cover this where applicable - hallway etc. We have 3 rooms to the ground floor with carpet - so our contract stated that ALL skirting was to be left uncut, unpainted for client to complete post handover. SOOOOO, my long lost carpenter friend then had to rip all the skirting off that he had spend the day doing and it would need to be reordered for us! I felt a little bad - it wasn't stated in his paperwork. All's well that end's well!!

Upstairs Skirting and Cornice Finished